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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Studded with good middle-class suburbs are Morris and Union counties in New Jersey. Together they compose the State's 5th Congressional district, hold 10% of its population. Elizabeth is an industrial entity unto itself but in Morristown, Mendham, Madison, Summit. Plainfield et al. live countless families whose heads have 9:30-to-4:30 o'clock jobs in the city, who are not quite so socially smart as the residents of Somerset County (Far Hills, Bernardsville, Peapack) with 10-to-4 o'clock jobs, but who do hold a higher head than...
Viewed with alarm by conservative architects and city planners is skyscraping Radio City, the $250.000,000 Rockefeller development on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan (TIME, March 16 et ante.). The design of this cultural-commercial group of buildings, as yet nothing but three excavated city blocks, has been flayed as a "monstrosity." Its construction without adequate transportation planning has been called a "crime" because its inhabitants will congest an already over-congested area. Last week bristle-haired Raymond Mathewson Hood, one of the three designers of Radio City, went to its defense in an interview in which he praised congestion...
...Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express reported that Canada's Bennett has persuaded the British Government to launch an Empire wheat quota scheme nearly as ambitious in regard to wheat as Baron Beaverbrook's own sweeping proposal for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929, et...
...praise to Camden, N.J. for containing the factories of RCA-Victor Co., Campbell Soup Co., Armstrong Cork Co., Jantzen Knitting Mills, New York Shipbuilding Co., Congoleum-Nairn Inc. et al., and the house in which Poet Walt Whitman died...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning's rich Cathedral of St. John the Divine, long abuilding in Manhattan, Banker William Woodward, whose racehorses (Gallant Fox [retired], Sir Ashley, Sir Andrew, et al.) have won $89.543 in purses this year, gave $80,000 for a rose window 40 ft.in diameter, in memory of his parents and his uncle James T. Woodward (from whom he inherited his estate at Bel Air, Md., his large holdings in Central Hanover Bank & Trust...